Biography
Albert Jackson was one of three Black young men, reported as twenty-one to twenty-two years old, picked up at 135th Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem in August 1934 following a thirty-eight-cent robbery. Sadie Van Veen wrote in the February 5, 1936 Daily Worker that they were beaten, tried before an all-white jury on one witness, and sentenced to ten to thirty years each; she specifically says Albert Jackson received a straight thirty years. The article challenges the fairness of the prosecution and alleges the witness enjoyed police protection. No exact arrest day, verdict day, release, or actual served duration is supplied. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1936/v13-n031-NY-feb-05-1936-DW-Q.pdf#page=7
Sadie Van Veen’s March 28, 1935 editorial describes three Harlem youths prosecuted over a thirty-eight-cent robbery a few months earlier. It prints Cameron Winslow, rather than the Winslow Cameron spelling in the later account already recorded here, alongside Charlie Epson and Albert Jackson. The shared three-person case and robbery amount establish the contextual link without creating a duplicate or silently reversing the current name. It reports ten-to-thirty-year sentences for the first two and a straight thirty years at hard labor for Jackson. These are imposed terms, not completed service; no exact admission, release, final duration or individual prison allocation is supplied.
